I Remember Being Corrected In My Formative Years For Something I Did Wrong, And It Seems To Me Always There Was Always An, “I Love You Added”. “I Love You, BBBBUT”   I Don’t Recall Hearing, “I Love You” Without The “But”.   The Insertion Of The Word, “But”, Wipes Out Anything Just Previously Said.

I Got The Impression, “Well, You’re Not What We Wanted, But You’re Our Son, And We Have Learned To Love You, We Tolerate You”.  And That’s The View I Had Of How Abba Father Felt About Me.  I Never Recall A Time Where My Father Decided That We Would Go Off Together Alone, And Pull Me Over Close And Say, “Son, I Want To Tell You How Pleased Your Mother And I Are Of You.  And If We Could Ask Yahweh For Any Son In The World, We’d Want One Just Like You.  We Love You So Much”.  And We Love Our Siblings, But When You Hold Your Child or GrandChild And You Say, I Love You Sooooo Much, Not Just Love You, But Love You SO MUCH.  I Love You Sooooo Much.

Well, That Never Happened, And I Have Christian Parents Who Love Yahweh, And They Would Probably Say This Very Thing About Me Word For Word.  Moral Of The Story, We Need To Be Saying, “I Love You”, More Often, Especially In Positive Times Of Refreshing.

So I Associated The Words, “I Love You”, With, “You’re Really Messing Up, But Because I Love You, I Tolerate You”.  The Message I Got, Although UnIntentional, Was I Could Never Measure Up.  Even, If I Did Everything Correctly And Worked As Hard As I Could, There Would Always Be Some Oversight On My Part.  I Received Non-Acceptance Based On My Performance, or Rejection.

If Someone Were To Tell Me That They Liked Me, I Took That As A Sincere Form Of Acceptance.  However, If Someone Were To Tell Me That They Loved Me, I Wanted To Hit Them In The Face.  I Saw That As A Rejection.  And That Is The Way I Viewed Yahweh.

When I Heard That Yahweh Loved Me, I Thought That Meant That Yahweh Tolerated And Put Up With The Way I Acted, But Yahweh Really Didn’t Like Me Nor My Actions.  I Thought Yahweh Loved Me Because He Had To Love Me, Not Because He Wanted To Love Me.  This Is The Way I Had Had Love Expressed To Me.  I Heard, “I Love You”, {But It Was Inferred That This Is A Conditional, Performance-Based Love.  You Do Right And We’ll Love You.}

It Didn’t Do Any Good For Me To Know That Yahweh Had Said, “For I Know The Plans I Have For You, ” Declares Yahweh, “Plans To Prosper You And Not To Harm You, Plans To Give You Hope And A Future”, (Jeremiah 29:11).   By The Way, Yahweh Just Said That He Has Plans Not To Harm You~!  The Next Time You Find Someone Sick In A Hospital And They Said, “Yahweh Is Just Doing This To Test Me, Contrast That Statement With The Word Of Yahweh That Says That Yahweh Has Plans Not To Harm You~!” “Let Yahweh Be True And Every Person A Liar”, (Romans 3:4).

Compare What They Say With What Yahweh Said About, “Plans Not To Harm You”.  James 1:17 Says, “Every Good Gift And Every Perfect Gift Is From Above, And Comes Down From The Father Of Lights, With Whom There Is No Variation or Shadow Of Turning, (NKJV).  It Is Not Good To Be Sick.  I Thought Of Yahweh’s Plans For Me Similar To The Plans That I Might Have For Others.  We Need To Know That Yahweh Is Extraordinarily, Extremely Good.

Here Is Something My Brother Said That I Thought Was From The Heart Of Yahweh.  Stop Trying So Hard To Be Pleasing To Yourself And Your Boss.  The More You Try To Please Others In Your Own Ability The More You Send The Message To Your Heart That You Are Not Measuring Up.  The Competition Is Over (Isaiah 40:2); Christ Yahoshua Has Measured Up For Us In ALL Things So We Do Not Have To Compete For Favor.

You No Longer Have To Worry About The Knowledge Of Good And Evil (Judgment Based On Performance).  We Have Been Set Free From This Worldly System So That We Can Enjoy Life (John 10:10).   You Do Not Have To Work Until You Feel Successful - You Are Success (In Christ)~!  You Do Not Have To Feel Worthy Of Having Things - You Have ALL Things (In Christ ~ 2 Peter 1:3)~!

Satan’s Threefold Plan For Your Failure (Mark 4:14-19):

1. Prevent The Word From Growing In Your Heart Through Human-Kind’s Tradition (Matthew 15:6; Mark 7:8-9, 13; Colossians 2:8), And Law (A Performance-Based Relationship With Yahweh ~ Galatians 5:4), or Worldly Reasoning (Knowledge Of Good And Evil, {1 Corinthians 1:17}).

2. Cause The Word That Has Started To Grow In You To Be Dried Up By Sending You Persecution.  We Get So Busy Watching The Sea That We Forget About The Command To ‘COME’ (Matthew 14:28-30).

3. Prevent The Word From Growing Enough To Bear Fruit By Distracting Us With Cares, Pleasure, or Contentment.

A Heart Full Of Grace Will Avoid These Things And Have A Yield Of 30%, 60% or 100%.

When I Traced The Hebrew Root Of The Word, ‘Good’, I Found The Attributes Of Yahweh, Because ‘Yahweh Is The Ultimate Good’.  I Can Find References That Yahweh Is Good ALL Over Psalms And The Scriptures.  Jeremiah 29:11 Ought To Have Read, I Know The Wonderful, Glorious, Illustrious Plans That I Have For You, Plans To Give You A Brilliant Future And An Outstanding Hope.  Plans That Are Far More Exceedingly Abundant Than You Can Ask For or Hope.

‘Hope’ Means ‘Confident Earnest Expectation’, (Romans 8:18-19; Philippians 1:20).  Yahweh Was Saying, “I’m Going See That You Make It”.  You Can Relax When You’ve Got Hope, (Confident Earnest Expectation), Because You Know It Is Going To Happen.  You Don’t Have To Get In A Tizzy Trying To Make It Happen Yourself, When You Know Yahweh Is Going To Make It Happen.  But If We Hope For What We Do Not Yet Have, We Wait For It Patiently. (Romans 8:25 ~ NIV).

The Plans That I Have For You Are Above And Beyond All That You Can Ask or Think According To The Power That Works In, (Ephesians 3:20).  What If In The Re-Created Person That You Are In Christ, You Have Inside Your DNA In Your Blood Something That Is Like A Secret Weapon That You Don’t Know About, But Will Destroy Viruses Including The CoronaVirus, Ebola, Malaria, & Even HIV / Aids, (Isaiah 54:17).

Yahweh Said The Life Is In The Blood, (Leviticus 17:11).   What If When Yahoshua Said To Them, “Most Assuredly, I Say To You, Unless You Eat The Flesh Of The Son Of Man And Drink His Blood, You Have No Life In You”, That Yahoshua Was Speaking Literally About The “Designer Genes” That Yahweh Had Purposed In Us, (John 6:53).

Yahweh Is Doing A New Thing In You~!  ‘New’ ^† As In Never Before Existing, Not ‘Like New’, As In A Car That Has Been ‘Restored’ To Its Original Condition.

2 Corinthians 5:17-21 ~
¹⁷ Therefore If Anyone Is In Christ, He Is A New^† Creation.  The Old Things Have Passed Away. Behold, All Things Have Become New^† .
¹⁸ But All Things Are Of God, Who Reconciled^¤ Us To Himself Through Jesus Christ, And Gave To Us The Ministry Of Reconciliation^¤ ;
¹⁹ Namely, That God Was In Christ Reconciling^¤ The World To Himself, Not Reckoning To Them Their Trespasses, And Having Committed To Us The Word Of Reconciliation^¤ .
²⁰ We Are Therefore Ambassadors On Behalf Of Christ, As Though God Were Entreating By Us: We Beg You On Behalf Of Christ, Be Reconciled^¤ To God.
²¹ For Him Who Knew No Sin He Made To Be Sin On Our Behalf; So That In Him We Might Become The Righteousness Of God.

^† Thayer’s Greek Definition ~ ‘New’, (Strong’s Concordance #G2537)

1. As Respects Form: Recently Made, Fresh, Recent, Unused, Unworn
2. As Respects Substance: Of A New Kind, Unprecedented, Novel, Uncommon, Unheard Of

^¤ Reconciled Has A Different Definition.  Actually, To Be ‘Reconciled’ Is An Accounting Term, As When The Books Are Being Balanced.  Such As An Employee Might Have Spent X-Amount Of Money Taking Someone To Lunch For The Company And Paid For The Lunch Out Their Own Pocket, And Now The Company Needs To Reimburse That Employee, But When The Exact Amount Is Restored To The Individual, Then That Deficient Has Said To Be Reconciled In The Company Payment Ledger.  Or When An Employee Takes Money From The Till and Makes A Company Purchase and Returns The Remainder Of The Money From The Emergency Funds Box, and Includes The Receipt For The UnReturned Funds.  The Amount Taken Is Now Reconciled.  This Is The Use Of The First Occurrence Of Reconciled^¤ , {Katallass} As Used In (2 Corinthians 5:18).  Another Example Would Be When An Automobile Has Been In An Accident, And Is Taken To A Body Shop, And The Car Is ‘Restored’ To Its Original Condition Prior To The Damage Occurring.  Or Any Kind Of Redemption Work Where Something Has Been ‘Restored’, (A Painting, Broken Furniture, A Nail Hole In A Wall That Has Been Patched With Putty, A Net That Has Been Mended).

However, The Word Yahweh Used Is For ^† ‘A New Creation’.  Our Fellowship Has Been ‘Restored’, And Pardoned Just As If It Never Occurred; And That Is Well and Good; However, We Are Now Made ‘A New Creation’ {That Never Existed Before}.  The Greek Word, “Tetelestai”, Used In John 19:30 Is Translated, “It Is Finished”, (Tetelestai ~ G5055), And Is Also Another Accounting Term That Means, “Paid In Full”}.

Tetelestai Was A Greek Word That Was Used In A Business Context On Ancient Receipts In The New Testament Bible Times,
To Indicate That A Literal Debt Had Been Paid In Full~!
And In A Judicial Context In Court ~ A Particular Sentence Had Been Fully Served~!
And In A Military Context Meaning That A Battle Has Been Won~! Like Triumph And Victory~!

Your Debt Of Sin Is Fully Paid, The Judgment For Your Sin Has Been Fully Served~! And The Spiritual War Against Death, Debt, Sin And Satan Has Been Completely Won~!  In Christ The Work Of Salvation, Healing, Victory, Reconciliation And New Life Is Fully Yours~!  It Is Finished~!

It Is Paid In Full~!  Your Fellowship With Yahweh Has Been ‘Restored’, Yahweh Is Not Mad At You.  You Are ‘A New Creation’~!  If You’ll Mix Faith With It And Believe It~!  (Hebrews 4:2).

Yahweh Says “I Know The Plans That I Have For You”.  We Might Not Know The Plans, But Yahweh Knows.  Our Part Is To Trust Yahweh.  So, Why Would We Not Believe That Yahweh Has Some Sort Of Structure In Our Cells That Fights Germs, or Generates Life?  When We Get Cut, We Never Have To Tell Our Bodies To Heal That Wound.  It Just Happens.  What Yahweh Does For A Pastime Recreation Hobby Is “Re-Creation”, (A Play On The Word “Recreation”).

I Am.  That’s What Yahweh Told Moses When Moses Asked Who Shall I Say Sent Me.  I Am.  I Always Thought That Was A Smart Aleck Answer.  Moses Asked Yahweh A Very Serious Question, Like Who Should I Say Sent Me, And Yahweh Replies Back, “Tell Them ‘I Am’ Sent You”.  So, I Asked Yahweh, “Do You Mind If I Ask You Why You Answered Moses In Such A Smart Aleck Manner?  Moses Wanted To Go Tell The Folks Who He Had Talked To, And You Tell Them ‘I Am’ Sends You”.  Sounds Like A Dog Food.

Then Yahweh Told Me, “That’s Because I Am”.  “Now, You’re Doing It To Me~!  I Am What?”, I Responded.  In A Fun Way, With A Touch Of Humor In His Voice I Heard Yahweh Say, “I Am Whatever You Need.  I Am The God That Heals You, I Am Your Rock, And A Strong Tower, I Am Your Shelter, “I Am”~! All Of Sudden It Made Sense.  I Said To Yahweh, “Well Why Didn’t You Tell Moses That”.   Yahweh Replied, “He Didn’t Ask Like You Have”.

Even The Name Yahweh Means, “To Exist, or The Existing One”. That’s Like That Part In The Lion King Where The Seemingly Isolated Young Lion Cub Simba Was Going To Be Eaten Alive By The Hyenas, But Suddenly The Father Lion Roared Letting It Be Known That He Was There.  This Is Want Yahweh Is Saying.  I AM Here.  You Can’t Mess With My Son or Daughter Without Going Through Me, And I Exist.  I AM A Force To Be Reckoned With.  I AM.

Then Yahweh Showed Me Jeremiah 29:11; “I Know The Plans That I Have For You, Plans To Give You A Future And A Hope”. (Yahweh Said About The Same Thing To Isaac In Genesis 26:24). The Words Don’t Mean Much Unless You Know The Character Of The One Who’s Talking.  The Hyena’s Just Like d—Evil One Can’t Take Down A Full Size Lion, So He Has To Come After Us When We Are Just Young Cubs, {So Let Us Grow Up, Luke 2:52; Ephesians 4:15; 1 Peter 2:2; 2 Peter 3:18}, (WEB).

I Used To Live At In A Certain Area Of Town Where There Were More People Of A Different Skin Color Than I Was.  While Living In This Area, I Went To The “Valu Foods”, And I Said To Yahweh, “Abba, I Think I Need To Move, Because This Neighborhood Has More People Of A Different Color Than Me And In Case You Haven’t Noticed, I Am The Only Person With My Skin Color At This Store, And I Want To Do The Smart Thing And Not Put Myself In Harm’s Way, And Here It Is At 9:14 pm And I Need To Get Sugar”.  And I Thought To Myself, “Maybe, I Should Go Home, And Come Back In The Daytime”.

Yahweh Said, You Read Joshua 1:9, (And I Opened My The Scriptures, Which I Carried With Me Everywhere I Went).  It Read, “Have I Not Commanded You?  Be Strong And Of Good Courage; Do Not Be Afraid, Nor Be Dismayed, For Yahweh Your Yahweh Is With You, Wherever You Go”. The Scriptures Didn’t Say, “He Was With Yahweh”, But, “Yahweh Was With Him”.

See Also: (For, “I Am With You”, (Entry Here To See How Many Times Yahweh Has Said, “I Am With You” or, “Yahweh Is With You”, or, “Yahweh Was With A Certain Person”.

I Said Something Like, “Yeah, Right”, And I Was Thinking  How Can Yahweh Order Me Not To Become Discouraged And Order Me To Be Strong?  How Can Yahweh Order Me Not To Be Afraid?  I’m Only A Human.  How Can I Just Decide I’m Not Going To Be Afraid?  I Am Alone Out Here At Night And I’m The Only Guy Out With My Skin Color.

How Can I Just Buck Up & Decide That I Am Not Going To Be Discouraged When Something Bad Happens In My Life.  How Can I Just Say NO, (Like A Cocaine Addict Could Really Just Say NO To A Habit Like That).  I Asked Yahweh This Very Same Question.

I Said To Yahweh, “I Know That You Are Yahweh And Lord And ALL That, But Aren’t You Pushing It Just A Little Bit?  How Can I Walk Down To The Middle Of A Gang And Just Buck Up And Not Be Afraid?  How Can I Face The Loss Of A Job, And The Death Of A Loved One Like My Little Girl That Only Lived Two Months And My Son Born In The Fallopian Tubes And Just Decide I Am Not Going To Be Dismayed?”  How Can You Just Command Me, “Be Not Afraid?”

Yahweh Responded Unexaggeratedly, Very Nonchalantly, (I Thought I Had Yahweh Cornered), “What Does The Last Part Say?”, Came The Reply.

So, I Had To Look Down At Yahweh’s Word And Read Them Right There Outside The “Food Valu”
At 9:14 pm, There It Was.

“For I Am With You” ~ “For Yahweh Is With Me”, I Thought On The Inside.

So, I Opened The Car Door And Said To Myself And To Yahweh, “Well Let’s Go On In And Say Howdy To The Folks”.  As I Came In, Cashiers, (With A Different Skin Color Than Me), Turned And Looked At Me As I Entered.  Even The Manager Stood Up And Peeked Over His Elevated Counter.  And They ALL Were Just Staring At Me.  I Was So Confident And So Full Of Love For These My People, And Knowing That Yahweh Was With Me, That I Said In A Pretty Louder Than Normal Voice, “Hey, How Are Y’all”, And The People Countenance Instantly Changed, And They Smiled And People Were Helping Me, And It Was Great Time, “We’re Doing Good, How Are You ?”  I Was In Heaven, And I Had Found Friends.

So, From That Time Until Now, I Am Changed, “Yahweh Is With Me”, And That Thought Must Go Through Me A Lot.  Yahweh Is WITH Me~!   Yahweh Is WITH ME~!   Yahweh’s Riding In My Car.  Yahweh Is With Me When I’m Jogging Late At Night.   See Also (Jeremiah 20:11; Psalm 118:6; Romans 8:31; 2 Timothy 4:17) .

When I First Lived In Lived In A Part Of Town; Late At Night You Could Hear, “Pow, Pow, Pow”, “Pow, Pow” As People Fired Guns At Each Other.  But, Yahweh Was With Me  I’d Go Jogging At 11 pm And Claim This Ground For Yahweh, And Pass By Crowds Of Folks Talking.  Yahweh Was WITH ME.  I Heard Yahweh Say Once As I Was Jogging, But After The Food Valu Lesson, (This Is A Play On Yahweh’s Word)… You Know I’ve Called You To Live In This Neighborhood, {I Learned Later That I Brought The Blessing Everywhere I Tread My Foot, (Deuteronomy 11:24; Joshua 1:3; Joshua 14:92; Corinthians 2:14)}.  Yahweh Said, “I Have Many Elderly Women Depending On You For Their Safety, And The Closest That I Can Get For Others To Come To This Community Is That A Lot Of Folks Pass Through This Subdivision On Their Way To Work And Many Of My People Pray For This Neighborhood And They Pray For You, But I Can’t Get Any Of Them To Live Here).

I’d Go Out Of My Way To Jog Past That Food Valu And Even Someone Asked Me Why Don’t I Stay Off Jordan Lane, As There Was A Lot Of Oncoming Traffic, But I Said, “Yahweh Is With Me, I’m Not Afraid”, And I Knew That I Would Get A Chance To Jog In Front Of The Food Valu, (And Include That Territory As Part Of Where My Feet Were Treading).  Also Entry Here To See How Many Times Yahweh Has Said, “I Am With You” or, “Yahweh Is With You”, or, “Yahweh Was With A Certain Person”.

So, When I Heard Gun Fire, I Opened The Door To Our House And Said About As Loud As I Can Holler, “Stop That Now In Yahoshua’s Name”, {I Was Bold, For I Had The Revelation That Yahweh Is With Me, (Jeremiah 20:11)}.  Sometimes, People Would Fire A Few More Shots, And I Would Shout Out, “If You Fire Even One More Shot I’m Coming Over There.  I Command ALL The Enemies Of Darkness To Immediately Stop Right Now, (Ephesians 4:27)”. And It Would Stop.  Then It Just Stopped For Good.  For The Last 17-18 Years That I Lived There, Never Was A Shot Heard.  It Became A Safe Place.  For Yahweh Was With Me.

We Overcome By The Blood Of The Lamb And The Word Of Our Testimony, (Revelation 12:11), But We Haven’t Known Much About The Later.  I Think This Has Hurt Us.  Recall That The Word Know Comes From The Greek Word “Ginosko”, (Strong’s Concordance #1097), And That Means To Know Something Works Because You Have Experienced It, {Experimental Knowledge}.

Anyhow, Back To The Story Where I Experienced God, I Drove Up To Promise Keepers In Memphis, TN, Alone But Had Joined Myself To A Group Of Baptist Men That Were Staying In The Same Church Gym Where I Had Called A Church Ahead Of Time And Was Told That I Could Stay There, (We Had Sunday School Rooms, More Like A Dorm, More Private And I Was Assigned A Roommate From This Group).  They Became My Family, (And I Grew Up Baptist And Felt Comfortable With Them).  They Fed Us And Then We Had A Bus Take Us To The Coliseum And There Were 10,085 Plus People In This Arena.  We Found Our Seats And The Worship Started And They Were Singing This Song That Had So Changed And Impacted My Life, “Be Bold, Be Strong, For Yahweh My God Is With Me, Walking In Faith And Victory, For Yahweh My God — Is With Me”.

This Is A Story About A Time When I Felt A Little Frightened In Praise & Worship.  Some Tell Me That They Can’t Imagine Me Being Shy, That Is Because I’ve Walked Through Stuff And Had To Grow Into The Character Of Yahweh, (But You Didn’t Know Me When I Was Younger).

This Feeling Of ‘Revival’, Has Been Called ‘The Glory’, ‘The Manifest Presence Of The Yahweh’.

A Lot Of Preachers Have Thought That Worship Is Just A Prelude To Warm Up The Emotions So That They Can Now Preach, And Especially The Teachers To Teach.  Real Worship Is A WarFare That Clears The Atmosphere, (Psalm 149:1-9).  So, The Paradox Is That When You Do Go ALL The Way In Worship, Then Just Exactly What The Teachers Want Happens, Our Hearts Are Ready And We Are Enlightened And Can Receive The Message.  Let’s Pray That We Go ALL The Way To The Extent Of Worship That We Are Supposed To Each Time.

Here’s One Time That I Was Way Out Of My Comfort Zone, {We Overcome By The Blood Of The Lamb And The Word Of Our Testimony, (Revelation 12:11).  So, Here’s My Testimony}.  I Went Once To Promise Keepers In Memphis, And Henry Blackaby Was Scheduled To Speak, ({He Is Like Moses, To The Baptist People, Getting Yahweh’s People Out Of Captivity, And I Call Him Moses Blackaby}.  You Can Find His Study Guide On, “Experiencing God” In Any Christian Book Stores.

http://www.blackaby.org/

While At This Promise Keepers In Memphis, They Started Singing, “Be Bold, Be Strong, For The Lord Thy God Is With Thee, Walking In Faith And Victory, For The Lord Thy God Is With Thee”.

They Were Singing Joshua 1:9  ~ “Haven’t I Commanded You?  Be Strong And Of Good Courage; Don’t Be Afraid, Neither Be Dismayed: For Yahweh Your God Is With You Wherever You Go”.   They Were Still Singing, “Be Bold, Be Strong”.

I Had Read In The Scriptures And Surmised That The Secret Of King David’s Success Was That David Inquired Of Yahweh, {Nine Times That It Is Recorded In The Scriptures}.

(1 Samuel 23:1-3; 1 Samuel 23:4-5; 1 Samuel 23:10-11; 1 Samuel 23:12-14; 1 Samuel 30:8-9; 2 Samuel 2:1-2; 2 Samuel 5:17-21; 2 Samuel 5:22-25; 2 Samuel 21:1; 1 Chronicles 14:10, 14).

“I Have Found David The Son Of Jesse, A Man After My Own Heart, Who Will Do All My Will”, (Acts 13: 22).

So, I Turned To Yahweh And Said, “Should I Go Down There And Dance?”  Yahweh Replied Back, “Be Bold”.  “Right”, I Said, “I’m On My Way”.  But, Out In Front Of The Stage For About 50 Feet Nobody Was Dancing.  Further Back Where The Folding Chairs Were, People Were Dancing Some, Mostly Swaying, But They Were Cramped And It Was Not The Place To Dance, (Restrained, Afraid Of What Others Would Think)… We’ve ALL Been There.

I Was Like David, “I Faced Gun Fire, What It Is This For My God”.  {“And David Said Unto Saul, Your Servant Kept His Father’s Sheep, And There Came A Lion, And A Bear, And Took A Lamb Out Of The Flock: Your Servant Slew Both The Lion And The Bear: And This unCircumcised Philistine Shall Be As One Of Them, Seeing He Has Defied The Armies Of The Living God”, (1 Samuel 17:34-35)}.

But, The Word Says Let Everything Be Done In Decency And In Order, (1 Corinthians 14:40); or At Least That’s The Excuse That I Used, And So I Asked A Middle-Aged Black Man Of The County Sheriff’s In A Green And Khaki Uniform Guarding The Left Side Of The Stage And The Floor Space In Front Of The Staged Area If It Would Be Okay If I Danced Out Front Of The Stage?  I Was Really Just Hoping He Would Say, “No, That’s Not Allowed”, So That I Could Say, “See, I Tired” And Return To My Seat.  But, He Was In Touch With The Same Spirit Of Yahweh That I Was Hearing And Said Instead, “Oh Yeah, Go On Out There”.  I Prodded Him Further, “Do You Need To Call And Ask Anyone Else”, And He Respond, “No, If I Say You Can Go Out There, Then You Can Go Out There~!”

And Just Then They Quit Playing, “Be Bold, Be Strong”, And I Was Just Standing There On The Side Near The Wall, Feeling A Little Intimidated, Wondering What I Should Do.  Then They Started Singing, “When The Spirit Of Yahweh Is Upon Me, I Will Dance Like David Danced” And I Just Knew That Yahweh Is With Me, Let’s Go, And I Sort Of Skip-Twirled Five Times Right Out To The Very Middle.  I Don’t Think That I Can Skip-Twirl Like That On My Own Without Falling or Getting Dizzy, But I Didn’t Get Neither.

Just Then From The Parallel Side Of The Right Stage Area Guarding The Stage And Floor Space Came A White Policeman In A Dark Blue Uniform And He Got Right In Front Of Me And Used Both Hands To Signal Me To Back Up, Back Up, Back Up, Back Up, Back Up, Back Up, And He Did This The Whole Way, (50 Feet) Until I Was Smugly In The Cramped Place Where The Others Were Dancing.

Oh, The Levels Of, “I Wish I Could Crawl Under A Rock, I Think I Turned Nine Shades Of Red”.  I Was So Embarrassed.  I Really Wanted To Cry And To Really Let My Tears Flow, As It Hurt So Bad.

I Heard Yahweh Stay, “Stay, Keep Dancing, Don’t Lose Your Joy”, (1 Peter 5:8; James 1:2), So, I Repeated On The Inside, “The Joy Of Yahweh Is My Strength”, (Nehemiah 8:10), But Still, I Wanted To Cry.  I Had To Repeat This Maybe 25 Times To Myself, “The Joy Of Yahweh Is My Strength”, “The Joy Of Yahweh Is My Strength”.  And I Would Say To Myself, “Smile Big, Keep Your Joy, They Are Not Going To Steal My Joy”.  Finally, The Worship Was Over And I Could Thankfully Return To My Seat.

And We Listened To The Guest Speaker, (Henry Blackaby May Have Spoken The Next Night, As I Don’t Recall Who Spoke).  I Honestly Don’t Think Anybody Could Recall Who Spoke or What Was Said, As This Incident With The Police Officer Had Put A Damper On The Entire Service.

Then The Service Was Over.  As I Was Getting Up Out Of My Seat At The Conclusion, I Saw A White Man With Crutches That Was Fighting Hard Against The Crowd Going Up The Stairs In The Coliseum To Come Down To Where I Was.  He Was So Out Of His Comfort Zone Coming Down This Precarious Trek That I Noticed Him Immediately, And He Was Not Moving Slowly At All.

He Met Me In The Stairs Beside The Seats And Stopped Right In Front Of Me And Said, “God Told Me To Tell You That Was Of Him, And He Was Very Proud Of You”.  I Said, “Thanks”, But Inwardly I Was Hoping Nobody Was Paying Attention To Him, Instead A Crowd Formed Around Me And Others Just To Watch It Play Out.  I Thanked Him Again And He Said, “I Want You To Know That If I Didn’t Have Crutches, I Would Have Joined You Down There”.  I Stopped And Looked Him In The Eye, And Recalled His Dogged Determination To Come Down The Stairs Against The Crowd Going Up The Stairs, And I Knew He Would Have Done So, I Actually Lifted My Head Some, And I Nodded My Head And Politely Thanked Him Some More.

People Were Patting Me On The Back, I Wasn’t Sure If It Was Because They Were Trying To Consul Me For Missing God So Bad, or Telling Me I Did Alright.  But, Before It Could Subside Another White Man Came Hoppling Down With A Cast On His Foot And Said About The Same Thing, (“If My Foot Wasn’t In A Cast, I Would Have Come Down And Joined You”).

Finally We Navigated To The Inner Coliseum, And Were Making Our Way Towards Our Bus, When Another Black Man In Wheel Chair Was Really Making That Thing Scoot, And He Was Pressing Against The Crowd Going In The Other Direction And Again His Determination Really Caught My Eye, And He Grabbed My Arm As I Passed Him And He Said, “Son, The Spirit Of The Lord Was ALL Over You, And When You Stayed And Did Not Lose Your Joy, I Knew That God Was In This”.

By This Time, ALL I Could Do Was Just Listen And Be Amazed.  The Folks With Me Were Equally Amazed & Just Listened.  I Thanked Him For His Words Of Encouragement And Moved On.

So, That Friday Night Was Over, Finally, Amen.  I Went Back To Our Dorm-Like Rooms, And Just Pondered Today’s Events.  I Don’t Remember Asking Yahweh About Today’s Events.  I Was Thinking, “But, I Asked The Deputy Sheriff, I Tried To Do Everything In Decency And In Order”.  And I Think I Apologized For Missing Yahweh, And Prayed That I Was Not A Distraction, or At Least I Was Going To Pray This, But ALL I Could See Were These Three Individuals That Pressed Hard To Touch Me, And I Fell Asleep Pondering About Them.

I Have To Say One Note Here.  A Certain Pastor At A Local Church Had Frowned Upon Me Dancing, And There Was Some Hurt There, (I Could Not Stop Doing Something Yahweh Had Called Me For The Gifts And The Calling Of God Are Irrevocable”, ~ Romans 11:29).

So, Back To The Present On Saturday Night The “Master Of Ceremonies”, For This Promise Keepers Was Another Man With The Same Exact Name, (Different Person, But The Same Name), As That Former Pastor That Had Frowned Upon My Dancing, And I Just Thought It Was More Than A Coincidence~!

Coincidences ~ Proverbs 16:33 (AMPC), The Lot Is Cast Into The Lap, But The Decision Is Wholly Of Yahweh, [Even The Events That Seem Accidental Are Really Ordered By Him].

So, Just Before The Praise And Worship Began, The Master Of Ceremonies With The Same Name Took The Microphone And Said, “Last Night As We Praised A Young Man Came Down To The Front Of The Stage And Twirled And Danced”.  (I Thought, “Oh No, One Night Of Embarrassment Was Enough, Do I Have To Go Through This Again?”).  I Was Thinking, “God I Don’t Care How Many Folks You Send Tonight To Confirm That I Was Hearing From You, I Don’t Want To Go Through That Again, But I Will If Tell Me To Do So”.

The Master Of Ceremonies Paused, And Then Said, “I Apologize Not To You, But To That Young Man.  We Were Taken By Surprise, We Did Not Anticipate Anyone Dancing, And We Failed To Tell The Police And The Sheriff’s That It Is Okay”.

He Continued, “We Fully Hope That ALL That Want To Worship Will Come Down In Front Of The Stage.  We Have This Large Area In Front Of The Stage That No One Is Using”, And Everyone Laughed, (That Broke The Ice).  I Think I Was Just Sitting There With My ‘Mouth’ Open, And About 25-35 Of The Group Around Me Were Saying, “Way To Go~!”  Then They Started The Praise Music And My Group Was Saying, “Get On Down There”, And I Said, “Yahweh, Should I Go Back Down There Tonight”, And Yahweh Said, “You Started It~! Now Go Finish It, Firestarter~!”.

I Meant To Just Go Down At A Normal Pace, But They Were Getting More And More Into The Song And Guess What The Song Was, “Be Bold, Be Strong, For The Lord Thy God Is With Thee, Walking In Faith And Victory”, And Since Last Night I Never Made It There Fast Enough To Dance To This Song, (I Was Up High In The Stands).  So, I Started Jogging The Stairs Taking Literally Two At A Time, (And That Made A Very Loud Noise Of Heavy Steps Coming Down On Steel).  Bam~! Bam~! Bam~! Bam~! Bam~! Bam~! Bam~! Bam~!

I Hit The Floor And Again Twirled Five Times, This Time With A Lot Of Energy Coming Off The Ground, There Was A, “Yell”, That Went Out From That Crowd~!  {Something Had Been “Loosed”, From That Crowd Of Mostly Baptist, Probably A Religious Spirit That Had Them Bound By What Others Think Of Us}.  I Leaped, I Twirled.  I Wasn’t Stumbling, But In High Form Doing The Twirls Coming Off The Ground Without Missing A Beat, (“Hallel” Means To Dance Around, Foolishly To Others, But Tender To The Heart Of Yahweh).  #H2342 = “To Twist or Twirl, To Whirl, Whirl About In A Circular Manner, To Dance”,

“Hallel” Is The First Part Of The Word “HalleluYah” … With “Yah” Being The Abbreviated Name Of Yahweh, (I Promise His Name Is Not Jehovah, As There Was No ‘J’ In The Hebrew Language).  {For Example Psalm 113:1 In The King James Version Of The Bible, It Will Say ‘Praise The Lord’; However, In The Original Languages It Is The Very Common Universal Phrase, Known The Same ALL Over The World As ‘Hallelujah’~!  And Even Though It Is Spelled ‘HalleluJah’, It Is Pronounced Universally, ‘HalleluYah’; Which Is In Itself Is A Fulfillment Of Many Scriptures That I Could Find, {(Psalm 46:10; Psalm 83:18; Exodus 9:16;
Isaiah 12:4; Psalm 57:5)}; And Probably Some That I’m Not Aware Of}.  I Think It’s Clever Of Yahweh That He Has Kept This ‘Shout’ Always Pronounced Correctly With His Proper Name~!  We’d Sound Like 3 or 4 Years Olds If We Pronounced It Hallelu-JAH~!}.

After The Service Two Of The Men That Had Pressed In To Touch Me The Night Before, Made Their Way Again And They Were So Full Of Joy.  The Man On Crutches And The Man In The Wheelchair.  This Time I Rejoiced With Them~!

But, That’s Not ALL.  They Asked For Volunteers From Our Group To Be The Host Down Front For The Final Invitation On Sunday Night.  So, I Heard The Holy Ghost Tell Me To Volunteer, And I Volunteered.  We Were Basically Just To Confirm And Make Sure That The Young Men Knew What They Were Doing In Letting Yahoshua Be Their Lord.  I Was Standing Down Front And The Usual, “Just As I Am”, Was Being Sung.  Folks Were Going Down To Others But Not To Me.  I Felt Like The Town Fool, Like I Had The Plague, Nobody Wanted To Come To Me As They ALL Knew That I Was ‘THAT Man That Danced~!’   Maybe, They Thought It Was Contagious~!  I Was Seriously Thinking About Secretly Exiting, But Then I Recalled, “Wait, Yahweh Told Me To Volunteer, So I Better Stay”.

Then Immediately, I Spotted Two Good Looking Young Men About 40-50 Feet Away Looking Around Like They Were Trying To Find Something, While Everyone Else Had Their Head Bowed And Eyes Closed, When They Locked Eyes With Me, They Made A Bee-Line Straight For Me And Came Over And Stood In Front Of Me.  In Fact, They Were So Strikingly Handsome, Clean Shaven, Smart Haircuts, But With Dark Hair Even Though Their Heads Were Cut Close, That I Felt Intimidated, And Wondered What Could I Say, or How Should I Act In Front Of Them And Have Them Receive Me, And Think Of Me As Cool or At Least Respectable.

They Said, “We’re Both In The Army And We’re Fixing To Go To Desert Storm, (It Was 1991 or So), But We Just Had To Meet Another Warrior Before We Go”.  I Asked Them If They Had Asked Jesus To Be Their Lord, And They Said, “No, In Fact We Both Thought That Christians Were ALL Wimps, Until We Saw You Dancing.  We Saw You And We Just Came Down To Meet You In Person”

I Asked Them Would They Like To Ask Jesus To Be Their Lord, And They Both Looked At Each Other, And Again I Felt So Inadequate In Front Of These Obviously Cool Guys.  Then They Both Said, “Yeah, Sure”.  And I Held One Forearm Of Each Guy And We Bowed Our Heads And I Had Them Repeat After Me.

They Asked Jesus To Be Their Lord, And I Started Prophesying Over Them.  When I Started I Had No Word For Them, But I Knew They Saw Me Like A Father Figure, (They Were 18 & 19, I Was 35) And I Knew That Psalm 81:10 Says, “Open Your Mouth Wide, And I Will Fill It”.  So, I Started And As Soon As I Opened My ‘Mouth’ I Knew Things About Them, And Spoke What I Knew To Them, “That They Would Return Back Alive And Have Families, (And They Both Said That They Had Girl Friends And I Asked If Their Girl Friends Had Asked Jesus To Be Their Lord And They Both Said, “No”, So The First Thing I Instructed Them To Do Was To Go Tell Their Girlfriends What They Had Done Tonight And To Ask Their Girl Friends To Ask Jesus To Be Their Lord, And They Asked, “What About Our Parents”, And I Said, “Yes, Most Certainly Tell Everyone You Know And Be Sensitive To The Holy Ghost As He Will Show You How”, (Isaiah 50:4-5) And I Told Them To Read The Gospel Of John).

I Told Them That They Would Be Bold Just And As I Was A Light To Them, They Would Be A Light To Many And Many Folks Would Turn To Them In The Days To Come In The Army For Safety, And I Explained How That Happened To Me In The Navy As A Plane Got Caught Fire On The Flight Deck With A Nuclear Bomb, (Phoenix Missle), On It Onboard An Aircraft Carrier And Nobody Could Sleep, And I Said, “I’m Going To Bed, God Gives Sweet Sleep And God Will Take Care Of Us”,

(Proverbs 6:22; Psalm 127:2;
Ecclesiastes 5:12; Psalm 4:8;
Proverbs 3:24; Isaiah 50:4; Psalm 91:5);

And Turned Away From The Overhead TV Monitor, And About 115 In My Berthing Area Felt So Relaxed That They Followed Suit.  (Learned Later That As Soon As I Went To Bed They Got The Fire Under Control… Coincidence?  I Got Fear Under Control, And The Fire Had Gotten Extinguished).

I Remembered When I Was In The Navy Boot Camp And One Of My Instructors Asked In The Classroom In Front Of Both Squadrons, How Many Were Christians; And How I Just So Very MUCH Wished He Didn’t Ask That Question, But, I Can’t Deny Yahoshua, So, I Had To Raise My Hand. There Were Only Seven Of Us Professing Christ As Our Lord Out Of 196 young men, plus Our Squadron Commanders, (But none Of Them Raised Their Hands).  And He Told The Rest Of The Group, That If They Had Any Problems To Come To Us.  And This Caused Many Others In My Squadron To Seek Me Out For Advice.

So, I Said To These Two, You Will Bring Peace And Comfort, And The Boldness That I’ve Shown, You Will Show Greater, And Not Just To The Boys In Desert Storm, But To The Families You’re Going To Have And To Your Children’s Children, And To Your Children’s Spouse’s Parents And Even To Their Parents, And To Friends That Will Gather Around Your Children Because There Is Such Peace In Your Homes.  Everything’s Changed~!

The Plans That d—Evil One Had Of Having Your Teenage Boy Have A Car Wreck At Age 17 Are Now Dissolved.  The Plans To Have Your Teenage Girl Get Date Raped And Pregnant Are Brought To Naught, I Spoke To The Other, And I Wasn’t Guessing Either, I Was Telling What I Knew For Sure Would Have Happened Otherwise.  And You Two Will Stay Friends For ALL Your Lives.  (Yahweh Set In Motion A Blessing, Even As They Went To Fight In This War.  I Was Loosing The Planned Evil And Binding Their Friendship.  They Had Glimpses Of, “I Have A Future”, And Their Thoughts Would Not Be Consumed By The Fear Of Dying, As They Now Know That They Will Survive, To Be Friends Their Entire Life.  This Was A, “Father’s Blessing”).

And You Know What, Suddenly ALL The Thought Of How Cool They Were Was Gone, And They Just Seemed Like My Sons.  So, I Told Them How Cool They Were And How Cool They Looked And That They Are Leaders And That Many Will Be Drawn To Them Just Based On Their Looks, But You Know And I Know That Something Just Happened On The Inside Of You, And The Coolness That You Had Before Will Be Replaced By A Godly Attraction, Where People Will Look To You Two For Leadership, {Favor}.

We ALL Three Hugged And Embraced, And People ALL Around Us Had Also Asked Jesus To Be Their Lord With Their Guidance Counselors.

Two Guys, And Their Families Go To Heaven Because Yahweh Told Me That He Was With Me And I Danced, (Can It Get Any Greater Than This?  I Plan To Find Out~!)  This Is The Reason For The Glory Showing Up.

This Feeling Of Revival, A Rush As Of A Mighty Wind, I Think It’s Called The Glory, The Manifest Presence Of The Yahweh, Revival May Be The More Appropriate Word After ALL.

You Can’t Have A Testimony Without First Having A Test~!

I Know This Sounds Like I’m ALL About Me, But That Was Not My Intentions, But This Testimony Is Designed Be An Encouragement To You~!  This Was A True Story Of What Happened To Me In Memphis, TN Back Around 1991 And As We Overcome By The Blood Of The Lamb And Also By The Word Of Our Testimony, (Revelation 12:11)~!  I Encourage You Also, To Keep A Journal, (It’s Manly As Even The Star Trek Captains Have A “Captain’s Log”)… So That In The Future, When You’re Overwhelmed or Just Need Encouraging, You Can Read Your Own Journal And See What Yahweh Yahweh Has Done For You And Through You.  I Have Many Stories To Tell Some Of Which You May Not Believe, But When The Sunset Of Life Is Upon You, You Will Have A Catalog Of Stories That Are Greater Than Mine~!

Suppose I Tell You About A God That Is So Good That No Matter Where He Goes He Leaves A Trail Of Success~!  This God Is Known For Helping Out ALL That Come Into Contact With Him And Call On Him For Help.  For Close To 6,000 Years, Time And Again, This God Has Without Fail Come Through~!

This Was The Same God That Parted The Red Sea When Moses Became Trapped Between A Rock And A Hard Place Exiting Egypt By The Red Sea.  This Was The Same God That Got Jonah Out Of A Whale Of A Jam, And Daniel From The Jaws Of The Lions, And Daniel’s Three Friends From A Fiery Furnace.

This Was The Same God That Made Not Just The Earth, Not Just The World And The Moon And The Sun, But Who Created The Universe With A Word.  Now Suppose That I Tell You That This Same God Is Riding In The Car With You.  This God Is Huge~!  This Is The Very God That Made You And Me.

Is There Anything Too Hard For Yahweh?  (Jeremiah 32:27). This Isn’t Jeremiah The BullFrog Riding Beside You Saying “I Will Never Leave You Nor Forsake You”.  This Is Yahweh Yireh, My Provider The El-Shaddai, The God Who Is More Than Enough, The Almighty One Riding On High.

Will It Make A Difference?  Well, It Might.  It ALL Depends On You.  Know That This Same God Also Loves You And Thinks Of You As The Apple Of His Eye, “For Yahweh Your God Is With You Wherever You Go”,

Joshua 1:9; 1 Chronicles 28:20;
Isaiah 41:10-12; Joel 3:10;
1 Corinthians 16:13
or Ephesians 6:10.

 It Will Make A Difference If You Grab Hold Of This Promise As Belonging To You~!

Paul Wrote In Ephesians 3:16-21, “That Christ May Dwell In Your Hearts Through Faith; That You, Being Rooted And Grounded In Love, May Be Able To Comprehend With ALL The Saints What Is The Width And Length And Depth And Height — To Know The Love Of Christ Which Passes Knowledge; That You May Be Filled With ALL The Fullness Of Yahweh.  Now To Him Who Is Able To Do Exceedingly Abundantly Above ALL That We Ask or Think, According To The Power That Works In Us, To Him Be Glory In The Church By Christ Yahoshua To ALL Generations, Forever And Ever.  Amen, (NKJV).

In This The Love Of Yahweh Was Manifested, (Revealed)Toward Us, That Yahweh Has Sent, (1 John 4:9), His Only Begotten Son Into The World, That We Might Live Through Him.

In This Is Love, Not That We Loved Yahweh, But That He Loved Us And Sent, His Son To Be The Propitiation, (As The Atoning Sacrifice For Our Sins) For Our Sins. (Romans 3:25 & 1 John 4:10).

If You Love Someone Enough To Send Your Child To Die For Them, You Do Not Stop Loving Them.  In Matthew 9:36 And Luke 7:13 Recorded Just Some Of The Instances Where Yahoshua Was Moved With Compassion And Acted.  Yahoshua, {Jesus} Went Out, And He Saw A Great Multitude. He Had Compassion On Them, And Healed Their Sick. Matthew 14:14.  The Word Compassion Comes From The Greek Word “Splagchnizomai”, (Strong’s # 4697).

The Very Word Means To Have Compassion - Eager Yearning, Inward Affection, Moved To Action.  To Be Moved As To One’s Bowels.  When A Woman Is Having A Baby And Her Waters Breaks, It May Already Be Too Late To Go The Hospital, As That Baby’s Coming Out.  More Precisely, This May Be Why The Hebrew Word For Compassion Was The Word Used To Describe A Womb.  Because There Is No Stopping This Kind Of Love.

You Are Of Great Value~!  So Don’t Be Ashamed At His Appearing, (1 John 2:28), Thinking You Haven’t Accomplished Some Performance-Based Measure Of Success, Like Have Enough Faith, or Did You Make It Big Financially And Have A Nice House, Family, Dog And A Cat.  Or That You Were Never A Sunday School Teacher, Deacon, Elder or Even A Pastor, or Even If You Were.  Your Only Response Should Be, “I Am Yahweh’s Child”.

Much Like Simba In, “The Lion King”, We Cry Out To Yahweh In The Same Way That Simba Cried Out To His Father After The Father’s Death, Saying, “Father, You Said That You’d Always Be There For Me, But You’re Not; And It’s ALL My Fault”.  But, It Turned Out That Simba’s Father Had Not Left Simba, And Was Not Mad At Him At ALL, And It Was Not Simba’s Fault.  Simba Had Believed The Lie.  I Used To Have To Be At Work At 7 Am.

Some Mornings I Would Run Five Minutes Late.  On Those Mornings, I Avoided Bumping Into My Boss, Because I Thought He Might Be Mad At Me For Being Late.  On Other Mornings I Would Even Arrive On Time or Five Minutes Earlier.  On Those Mornings, I Tried To Make Sure That My Boss And I Crossed Paths.  Why?  Because I Felt That He Was Delighted In Me On Those Mornings.  I Was Coming To My Boss Based On My Works, Not On The Relationship.

In Reality, My Boss Liked Me And Thought I Was A Great Worker.  But, My View Got Distorted From The Factual View Of What Was Real, When I Thought I Had Fallen Down.  This Is The Way That We View Yahweh After We Think We Have Done Something That Separates Us From Yahweh.  All The While, The Truth Of The Matter Is That Yahweh Is Still Our Father And Promises Us That He Will Never Leave Us Nor Forsake Us, (Hebrews 13:5).

We Might Leave Yahweh, But Yahweh Never Leaves Us.  Like The Woman That Commented To Her Husband As They Were Driving Along In Their Car After A Number Of Years Of Marriage, “How, Come We Never Sit Close Anymore?”, And The Husband Replied, “I Haven’t Moved”.  Yahweh Has Not Moved.  We Moved~!  Return To Me He Says In Malachi 3:7 ~ From The Days Of Your Fathers You Have Turned Aside From My Ordinances, And Have Not Kept Them.  Return To Me, And I Will Return To You, Says ‘Yahweh Of Hosts’ , (Tsebâ’Âh)“ (Malachi 3:7)

Let The Wicked Forsake His Way, And The Unrighteous Man His Thoughts; And Let Him Return To Yahweh, And He Will Have Mercy On Him; And To Our God, For He Will Abundantly Pardon, (Isaiah 55:7).

Sin Is Like Corrosion On The Battery Post, Obscuring Our Connection To Yahweh, But That Does Not Mean The Battery No Longer Has Power.  If We Will Clean Off The Corrosion, We Will Once More Talk With Yahweh, (Matthew 5:8, 1 John 3:3, Hebrews 12:14).   We Are Still Yahweh’s Child.

Just Like When Mufusa, The Lion’s Father In, “The Lion King”, Saw Simba, The Father Said, “You Are My Son, And The One True King.  Remember Who You Are”.  This Is What Yahweh Is Saying To Us.  Remember Who You Are~!

“Remember Who You Are, The Father Is Within You”, (Taken From, “The Lion King”).  Your Brother Is The One True Lion King From The Tribe Of Judah, So That Makes You In The Same Family, (Hebrews 2:11).  You Might Have Felt Rejected Like Timon The Meerkat or Pumbaa The Warthog, In The Movie, “The Lion King”.

But, When You Are Accepted By The Lion King, You Are Accepted By ALL, And Even Brought To His Throne To Reign In Life With Him As Were Timon And Pumbaa Who Had Felt Like The World Had Turned Their Back On Them.

You Are Accepted In Yahweh’s Sight, As Ephesians 1:6 Says, “To The Praise Of The Glory Of His Grace, By Which He Has Made Us Accepted In The Beloved”. “Much More They Which Receive Abundance Of Grace And Of The Gift Of Righteousness Shall Reign In Life By One, Yahoshua, (The Messiah), (Romans 5:17).

Righteousness Is A Free Gift~!   What Do You Do To Receive A Gift?  Just Receive It~!  What Do You Say?  Here’s What I Said.  Yahweh, I Want You To Be My Father.  I Want This Acceptance.  I Believe That Yahoshua Was The Christ, Your Son Who Died For Me; To Restore Me To A Right Relationship With You.  I Believe That Yahoshua Rose From The Dead, And I Want Yahoshua To Be Lord Over My Life.  Father, I Accept This UnConditional Love That You Offer, And I Am No Longer Rejected, But I Am Accepted.  I Am Your Child Now.

This Is The Gospel Of Peace.  Gospel Means Good News. This Is The Good News~!  Matthew 24:14 Says, “And This Gospel Of The Kingdom Will Be Preached In ALL The World As A Witness To ALL The Nations, And Then The End Will Come .  The Gospel Of Peace Is That Yahweh Is Not Mad At Us Even If You Just Sinned Right Now As You’re Reading This .

This Means That We Come Before Yahweh Based On Faith, or We Receive Based On His Word.  We Accept By Faith That We Are Holy And Worthy, Not Because Of What We Have Done or Have Not Done; But, Because Of What He Has Done.  It Is A Finished Work.  We Accept By Faith That Jeremiah 31:33-34 Applies To Us, Even After We Are Saved.  (See Also Galatians 3:13-29).

Perhaps The Law Of Religion Has Been Preached Around The World, And We Have Mistakenly Called That The Gospel.  The Religious Law That Says You Have To Do Such And Such, or Not Do Such And Such To Gain Approval By Yahweh And To Come Before His Presence.  This Is Not The Gospel.  This Not Good News.

Religion Comes From A Word That Means To Return To Bondage.  A Bondage Of Performance.  That Is To Say That If We Act Okay, Then Yahweh Will Not Be Mad At Us.  But The Good News Of The Gospel Is That Yahweh Loves You, And That Yahweh Is Not Mad At You, And That Yahweh Has Only Good Plans For You For Yahweh Is Good.   If You Accept Yahoshua And Never Spend Time With Him, That Does Not Change Yahweh’s Love For You or The Promises.  It Is Yahweh’s Desire To Spend Time With You.  How Will You Respond?

Here’s What Yahoshua Instructed His Followers To Do.  In Mark 3:13-15 ~Yahoshua Went Up On A Mountainside And Called To Him Those He Wanted, And They Came To Him.  He Appointed Twelve — Designating Them Apostles — That They Might, “

1. Be With Him And

2. That He Might Send Them Out To Preach And

3. To Have Authority To Drive Out Demons.

The Order Of These Is Highly Significant.  Before They Attempted To Minister For Yahoshua To Preach or Have Authority To Drive Out Demons, They Were Called To Be With Him.  (This Is Quoted From The Book, “Surprised By The Power Of The Spirit”, By Jack Deere, Zondervan Publishing House, Page 202 And Supported By Acts 4:13 Wherein It Is Stated,

“Now When They Saw The Boldness Of Peter And John, And Perceived That They Were Uneducated And Untrained Men, They Marveled.  And They Realized That They Had Been With Yahoshua”).

  Spend Time With Yahweh.  Remember That Yahweh Is Much More Concerned With The Process Than He Is With The Task Accomplished.  Think Of Paul And His Lost Opportunity To Equip Mark.  Paul Got A Second Chance For Mark.  Mark Wrote This Passage Above.

The Reason I Have Used So Many Illustrations From The Movie, “The Lion King”, Is Because There Is More Of Yahweh’s Truth Being Displayed On TV And The Movies Than There Is In The House Of Yahweh, (Luke 16:8).   d—Evil One In Order To Sell His Lie, Has To Put In More And More Truth.  Yahweh Knew That Would Happen Back Before Time.  We Are Attracted To The Truth.

Yahweh Said, “We Shall Know The Truth”, And, “The Truth Will Make You Free”,(John 8:32).   Yahweh Planned For Us To Know The Truth Before d—Evil One Starting Using Truth To Exploit Their Movies And Make Money.  So, It Is d—Evil One Big Mistake To Keep Putting So Much Truth Into Movies.  What d—Evil One Meant For Bad, Yahweh Will Use For Good, (Genesis 50:20).

A Lot Of The Televisions Shows Have A, “New Age” Appeal.  New Age Have Some Parts Of Truth Embedded In Their Lie.  New Ager’s Like Crystals.  Are We Going To Throw Away And Not Have Anything To Do With Crystals? The New Jerusalem Has A Crystalline Appearance, (Revelation 21:10-11).

And The New Ager’s Make A Big Deal About Rainbows.  However, Yahweh Said It First When He Said It’s, “My Rainbow” In Genesis 9:13-14.  Isaiah 54:9-10 And Genesis 9:16 Lets Us Know That This Rainbow Was As A Reminder Of The Covenant That Yahweh Is Not Mad At Us.  And There Is A Rainbow Around Yahweh’s Throne, Revelation 4:3, And On An Angels Head As Mentioned In Revelation 10:1.

In Fact, Ezekiel Saw The Rainbow Also When He Saw Yahweh’s Throne, (Ezekiel 1:28).   I Said At The Beginning Of This Document, That I Believe We Are In The “Age Of Grace”.   I Mean That.  We’re In The Last Age Of The Church And After That, The Millennium.  The Very Next, “Age” Will Be, “New” To Us.  Revelation 21:4-5 Says That Yahweh Will Wipe Away Every Tear, And Old Conditions And The Former Order Of Things Will Pass Away.

The Age We Live In Now Would Be The Old Age.  Then In The Next Verse, (5), Yahweh Says That, “He That Seats Upon The Throne Will Make ALL Things ‘New’”.  If Anybody Has A Legal Right To The title, “New Age”, It Ought To Be Us Followers Of Christ.  But, Let The “New Age Movement” Keep Their title.  I Just Want The Relationship To Yahweh.  But, My Point Is That Truth Is Coming Into The World Even By Our Adversaries.

I Saw More Truth Revealed About Yahweh’s Healing Power In, “Leap Of Faith” Than I Learned On My Own.  In The First Few Scenes Of, “The Lion King”, I Knew The Rays Of Light Coming Down From The Heavens Were What Yahweh Described As, “The Heavens Declaring His Glory”, (Psalm 19:1; Malachi 4:2).   I Tell You, There Is More Truth Shown About How To Get Along In Relationships, On, “Deep Space Nine”, Than Is Being Taught At Sunday School.

In Light Of This Paradox, I Think The Beginning Of, “Deep Space Nine” Looks Like The Description Of The ‘Wheel Within A Wheel’ That Ezekiel Wrote Of In Ezekiel 1:16, And Ezekiel 10:10.   I Also Saw More Explained On How The Holy Ghost Talks To Us In The Movie, “Always”, Than I Learned In Church .  And Every Week In The TV Show, “Touched By An Angel”, I Heard This Woman That Is Supposed To Be An Angel Saying That Yahweh Loves Us More Than We Could Ever Hope For.

Even In, “The Lion King”, Young Simba Kept Asking His Father To Walk Outside With Him, Going So Far As To Tug On His Ear Several Times.  I Thought Of Matthew 7:7, Where Yahoshua Said, “Seek And You Shall Find, Knock And It Shall Be Opened Unto You”.  I Equated Simba’s Asking, With Seeking And Simba’s Tugging On The Ear Of His Father With Knocking .  The Father Lion Got Up, And Showed The Lion Cub That Their Kingdom Extended Everywhere The Light Touched .  But, Not To Those Shadowy Places~!

Or Recall Jimmy Stewart’s In, “It’s A Wonderful Life”, or Marlo Thomas In, “It Happened One Christmas”.  Based On The Difference One Life Can Make On A Community By One’s Absence or Presence Two Possibilities Of Worlds Exist.  As I Watched Jimmy Stewart Come Back Into Pottersville, Which Was Formerly Bailey Park, And The Angel Said, “You Never Know What A Difference One Life Can Make”,

I Recall Hearing The Holy Ghost Saying In My Heart, “You Never Know What A Difference One Life Sold Out To Yahweh Can Make”.  The Movie, “Back To The Future II”, Showed This Same Scenario With A Different Version Of 1985 Than The One Where Marty Left Behind.  This Is The Same Concept Yahweh Talked About Concerning The “Spoken Out Loud” Blessings Of The Upright And Their City.

Proverbs 11:10-11 ~ A City Is Built Up By The Blessing Of The Upright, But It Is Torn Down By The ‘Mouth’ Of The Wicked.
Proverbs 21:22-23 ~ The One Who Guards Their ‘Mouth’ And Tongue Keeps Themselves Out Of Trouble.

When I Was A Small Child, I Did Not Know That Because Of Gravity That Glasses or Cups Had To Be Held Upright To Contain The Fluid, And I Spilt Many A Liquid Onto Myself And Others.  Now Because I Know The Truth About The Gravitational Pull, I Am Free From Spilling My Drink Onto Myself And Others As Long As I Remain Within The Guidelines Of That Truth That I Now Know.  Truth Was Still Truth Before That Point, But Now I Know The Truth About Gravity.

Is There Satisfaction With Another Man’s Wife?  Yahweh Said That A Woman’s Desire Shall Be For Her Husband, (Genesis 3:16).  Proverbs 6:32 Says, “Whoever Commits Adultery With A Woman Lacks Understanding; He Who Does So Destroys His Own Soul”, (NKJV).  Your Soul Being Your Mind, Will And Emotions.

Once Your Soul Is Destroyed You Will Not Be Able To Hear From Yahweh Correctly, And Proverbs 5:7-23 Says That This Will Lead To Total Loss Of ALL You Own.  Proverbs 6:34 Says That, “Jealousy Will Arouse The Husband’s Fury And The Husband Will Show No Mercy When He Takes Revenge”, (NIV).  Is It Any Wonder That Husbands Have Been Known To Kill A Man Found With Their Wife.  It Is Implanted In Us A Husband’s A Jealousy For Our Wife As Christ Has A Jealousy For His Bride.

It Isn’t That Yahweh Is Mad At Me And Will Punish Me.  The Outcome Of Adultery Is Total Ruin, And Because Yahweh Loves Me, I Am Given Wisdom Regarding The Pitfalls Of Adultery.  I Also Know That Yahweh’s View Of The Matter Is That “My Wife’s Bosom Satisfies Me At ALL Times , And I Am Enthroned By HER Love”, (Proverbs 5:19; Matthew 19:4-6). That’s Why Solomon Said To Regard Wisdom As Your Sister, (Proverbs 7:4-27).

Even At Times When I Have Come Across A Woman That Attracts My Eye, I Can Just Reflect On My Own Wife And The Wonderful Intimacy That We Have Shared And The Attraction For The Woman In Front Of Me Vanishes.  I Know The Truth, And The Truth That I Know Sets Me Free.  It’s Not Just The Dread Of The Consequences To Me That Stops Me From Committing Adultery.  Proverbs 8:13 ~ The Dread Of Yahweh Hates Evil.

I See What Will Happen To The Other Person.  I See How This Will Destroy Their Soul, (Mind, Will And Emotions); And The Effect That It Will Have On Them In The Future.  I See How d—Evil One Will Use This To Rob Them Of Their Relationship With Yahweh.  I See The Husband And I Know I Cannot Do This To Him.  I Thought That When I Became A Born-Again Follower Of Christ That I Would Instantly Lose The Desire For Another Man’s Wife.

But, What I Have Found Instead Is That I Have Enough Of Yahweh’s Love And Truth Inside Of Me To Disarm The Desire.  Romans 5:5… Because The Love Of Yahweh Has Been Poured Out In Our Hearts By The Holy Ghost Who Was Given To Us”, (NKJV).  I Find That It Is Love That Stops Me, “For The Love Of Christ Compels, (or ‘Constrains’), Us Because We Judge Thus: That If One Died For ALL, Then ALL Died; And He Died For ALL, That Those Who Live Should Live No Longer For Themselves, But For Him Who Died For Them And Rose Again”, (2 Corinthians 5:14-15 ~ NKJV).

1 Corinthians 8:1 Says That, “Knowledge Puffs Up, But Love Edifies”.   All This That I Have Given You Is Knowledge.  And It Was Solomon That Said, “As Regards Anything Besides These My Son, Take A Warning: To The Making Of Many Books, There Is No End, And Much Devotion [To Them] Is Wearisome To The Flesh”, (Ecclesiastes 12:12 ~ New World Translation)

This Knowledge Is Of No Value On Unless It Is Applied.  Edify Means To Build Up, As In Erecting A House, (Strong’s #3619).   We Are Building Up The House Of Yahweh When We Edify One Another.  Greek Scholars Tell Us We Have A Word In Our Vernacular Today That Is Closer To The Original Greek Than The Word Translated, “Edify”.   And That Word Is, “Charge”, As We Use It In Connection With Building Up A Charge On A Battery.

Yahweh Practices What He Says, And He Said To, “Speak The Truth In Love, That We May Grow Up Into Him In ALL Things, Which Is The Head, Even Christ”, (Ephesians 4:15).  Recall From Proverbs 16:6 That It Is Not Just The Truth But, “By Mercy And Truth Iniquity Is Purged: And By The Fear Of Yahweh Men Depart From Evil”.

Yahweh Speaks The Truth To Us In Love, And I Speak The Truth In Love Also.  Is There Someone You Know Of That Is Lonely or Sad?  Like The Apostle Paul, Is There A Mark In Your Life?  Do You Let Their Differences Pull You Apart?

Is There Someone Looking To Your Life As A Pattern For Their Own?  If They Were Successful In One Area, They Wouldn’t Need You To Instruct Them In That Area.  Do You Take Them With You As You Go Minister?  Or, Are You So Concerned With Reaching The World That You Don’t Have Time To Equip Them For Success, Not Realizing That They Are Part Of The Plan For Your Triumph, And There Are Other Areas Of Their Lives That You Can Learn From.

Oswald Chambers Put It This Way On His July 28 Page Of, “My Utmost For His Highest”, Yahweh Is More Interested In The Process Than The End Result, (or The Product).  And I’ll Add, The Process Will Result In The Product, But By Aiming At The Product, You Will Not Achieve The Product Nor The Process.

Although Yahweh Had Said To Separate Barnabas And Saul For The Work WhereUnto I Have Called Them, You Never Read About Barnabas And Paul, (Saul), Being A Team After Their Fight Over Mark.  Things Went Downhill For Paul From Acts 16 Onward, And From That Time On, And Paul Started A Lot Of Jail Ministries That Could Possibly Have Been Avoided Without His People Oriented Buddy.  And Barnabas Seemed To Have Faded Into Oblivion After The Parting, Except That Maybe He Was Responsible For The People Cyprus Witnessing To The Hellenistic Greeks.  I Suspect That Barnabas Showed The Love Walk To Paul, And Paul Wrote About It.  Paul Was Hardheaded And Didn’t Mind Controversy, And This Got Him Into A Lot Of Trouble, That Had Barnabas Been There, Paul Might Have Avoided.

And Paul Would Have Made Barnabas More Effective.  However, Paul Liked To Be In Control.  But, Yahweh Listed Barnabas’ Name First When He Assigned Them To Work As A Team.  Barnabas Would Have Made Paul To Be More Palatable.  I Marvel Why Paul Got Stoned And Yet Apparently Barnabas Was With Him, But Did Not Get Stoned, (Acts 14:19-20).   And I Cannot Help But Wonder If It Was Because Paul Was Speaking In Acts 15:2 That There Arose, “No Small Dissension And Disputation”.  Note, That This Strife Continued Until Acts 15:12-13, Where I Speculate That Barnabas Was Speaking, (As His Name Was Mentioned First).  The Word For Today Is Coalesce, {Click On This Word To See It’s Definition}.

I’ve Asked If There Is A Mark In Your Life.  Someone That You Contribute To Their Growth.  But, Now Let Me Ask If There Is A Barnabas In Your Life?  Someone That Contributes To Your Growth?  If You Are A Person That Likes To Control Others For What You Surmise Is Right, Note That The Next Couple Of Words In The Dictionary After The Word Control, Are Controller, Then Controlling Interest, Then Control Surface And Then Controversial Then Controvers y Then Controvert To Contumacious.  None Of These Words Describe The Character Of Christ.  Perhaps You Are Throwing Away The Very Means To Your Success By Controlling.

At The Very Tail End Of Paul’s Life, He Realized That He Better Write Down This That Yahweh Had Shown Him For Posterity’s Sake And He Wrote Letters.  But, He Could Have Just As Easily Realized This On A Beach On The Island Of Cyprus Rather Than In A Cold Dark Jail.  Paul Also Learned A Lot About Life And What’s Significant In His Lifetime.

How Often Have You Heard An Old Man During The Twilight Years Of His Life Remark, “I Wish I Had Spent More Time With My Family”.   Paul Also Realized Late In Life That One Of The Most Important Things In Life Are Relationships, And He Wrote About It.  All The Word Of Yahweh Was Inspired And I Am So Glad That The Holy Ghost Did Not Inspire Paul Until He Was Much Older.  Aren’t You Glad Paul Didn’t Write What He Thought Was The Most Important Until He Got Older, Wiser, And More Mature.  Imagine ALL The Letters That Would Had To Have Been Sent Out Refuting The Earlier Letters.

However, When Paul Finally Realized The Need For Writing Down What Would Bring Success, He emphasized Relationships As A High Priority. Dr.  James B. Richards, Calls This, “Rocking Chair Religion”.   Don’t Wait Until You’re Old And About Gone On To The Other Side To Arouse To The Fact That Relationships Are Vital.  As It Is Said, “No Person Is An Island”.

We Need The Goal Achievers Perspective To Accomplish The Task, And We Need The Viewpoints Of The People Persons To Keep Us From Becoming So Results Oriented That We Miss Relationships.  We Need Both Personality Types~!  Hebrews 10:24 Involves This Operation When It Says, “And Let Us Consider And Give Attentive, Continuous Care To Watching Over One Another, Studying How We May Stir Up, (Stimulate And Incite, Spur), To Love And Helpful Deeds And Noble Activities”.  (Enter Here For More Info On Hebrews 10:24).